Adele Ashworth’s first book My Darling Caroline was a true keeper. It had everything – characters, setting, and plot – and was so beautifully written I found myself stopping to re-read passages and marvel. Ms Ashworth’s second book Stolen Charms is just as beautifully written and has fantastic characters both main and secondary. The plot…
This is my kind of romance: two people drawn inexplicably to each other who, for various, often noble reasons, feel they must fight what they feel for each other. The struggle is a moot one, however, as the spell that holds the two lovers in its grip is too powerful to undo. After reading a…
One thing I’ve noticed about Mary Balogh fans is that everyone seems to have a different favorite. While this probably has something to do with the fact that she’s a prolific writer, I think it’s also because her books are as different as her fans. When you open up one of her books, you never…
When I read Heart of the West for the first time three years ago, I was not aware that I had a romance in my hands. Nor did I expect to become so engrossed in the book that I could not think of anything else for days. Re-reading it again for this review only confirmed…
Enticed is a historical romance that perhaps should have been marketed more towards those fond of mystery/romance hybrids. The solving of mysteries, murders and conundrums is such a dominant part of the story, not to mention the heroine’s life, that falling in love feels casual in comparison. But what could have been a good mystery…
Topaz links Katherine Love and Dix Wildhorse. Katherine wears the gemstone – her mother’s legacy – around her neck. Dix wears his grandfather’s legacies in one ear and on his badge as a U.S. Marshal. They meet when he rescues her from the clutches of Rupert Samuels, swindler, thief, and all-round bad guy masquerading as…
A Knight of Honor starts out strong, with an interesting plot, intriguing characters, believable dialogue, plus plenty of action. But a sagging middle and character inconsistencies reduce the final result to no more than an average read. At the age of thirteen, Taylor Sullivan is forced to witness her mother burned at the stake for…
This is probably the most disappointing book I have read in quite some time, mostly because of what it could have been, but for some reason, wasn’t. Topaz, a multicultural romance, features a wonderful, dynamic and sexy hero, a feisty, determined, independent heroine, and great chemistry. When I first started reading it, for about the…
For a while when I started The Knight of Rosecliffe I felt like a newbie who had been plunked down in the middle of an X-Files conspiracy episodes marathon. “Who are these people and what are they talking about”? I wondered. Happily, I was able to glean enough of the previous story to figure out…
Watching Dominic Wyndom, ex-spy and younger brother to an Earl, cling perilously to a church steeple makes the perfect opening for Flowers Under Ice. Few rakes, disillusioned or not, are as willing to court death. Soon Dominic learns that his estranged wife Harriet is dead. Her companion, Catriona Sinclair, wants him to travel to Scotland…
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